Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 13:12:01 -0500 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: Jo Rhett <jrhett@svcolo.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: any real documentation of the boot2 prompt? Message-ID: <200701121312.01585.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <1D170045-5A43-4C93-AFDC-19C44CEDB0F5@svcolo.com> References: <E22808FA-5C42-443E-AA32-0DA3247077AC@svcolo.com> <200701121216.25185.jhb@freebsd.org> <1D170045-5A43-4C93-AFDC-19C44CEDB0F5@svcolo.com>
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On Friday 12 January 2007 12:37, Jo Rhett wrote: > Okay, let me make this really clear. My BIOS doesn't tell me which > drive is which, and the BIOS of the 3ware card doesn't tell me what > number the drive is going to be labeled either. > > I need some command I can run from the freebsd CD to tell me what > freebsd observes. > > Like I mentioned before, lsdev only showed me a single drive. Then the 3ware BIOS doesn't let the boot software see your second drive, so there's no way to load /boot/loader off that drive since boot2 and the loader both rely on the BIOS to talk to drives. End of story. -- John Baldwin
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